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Slavery in the USA
Title: Slavery in the USA
Category: History
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Slavery in the USA
· Douglas hoped that northerners opposing his bill would quiet down after the bill was settled, but they became more furious
· Antislavery critics wanted to prevent slavery from gaining a foothold in Kansas
à Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company was found to help emigrants to settle down in Kansas à hundreds of settlers moved to Kansas
· Alarmed proslavery groups also started to go to Kansas
· When a territorial legislature was elected in March 1855 over 6000 votes were counted
· ~ 5000 of these …showed first 75 words of 239 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 239 total…started to explode when in November 1855 a Kansan were killed by a proslavery man
· On May 21st, Sheriff Jones, a proslavery, and a proslavery army marched into Lawrence and destroyed two printing presses and burned down several buildings
· A few days later John Brown and seven other men, took revenge and massacred five people (they split open their skulls and cut off some of their hands)
As a result civil war in Kansas broke out
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